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Articles

Recently React split the library up a little bit, and created two main parts, React and ReactDOM. React handles virtual DOM calculations, while ReactDOM does the actual interfacing with the browsers DOM. Parashuram's blog post exposes a way to increase Reacts speed by moving React Virtual DOM calculations from the main UI thread of the browser, into a web worker.

In life it is easy to find yourself surrounded by people who think the same way you do, and like the same things you like. If you're not careful you might end up in a vacuum of influence leading to mental stagnation. If you like React Gant probably agrees with you, but that doesn't mean it's all puppy dogs and rainbows. This article of his speaks to some downsides of the React Native developer experience.

The web is inundated with learning resources, especially for popular web frameworks, like React. The amount of minutia out there is staggering. Sometimes we just want to see some code examples! Martin Angelov of Tutorialzine has provided us with just that, practical code examples of React.

Tutorials

When speaking of React, we are often talking more about the React ecosystem than React by itself. This is because React alone is a relatively small piece of making web apps. When trying to dive into React, it can be overwhelming to learn React and JSX and Flux and ES* and Webpack. James K Nelson gives us a good introduction into using React sans the rest.

Projects

There are a lot of starter kits out there, but it's always nice to see ones that focus on simplicity. Josh's React Native starter kit is a good place to begin if you're looking to build a native app with React.

React Native is an awesome way to build native apps, since you can use React and all of it's goodness (like redux) to build real native apps. Deco is building an IDE to facilitate React Native development and it looks like it has a lot of really cool features, like React Native module installation, and a GUI for style updates.